I had a question regarding a game excluded from the timeline. That game being Puzzles & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition.
I understand the exclusion of certain crossover titles such as Super Smash Bros. and Mario + Rabbids which are obviously non canon material. Wario Blast, Fortune Street, and Mario & Sonic don’t work with the timeline. There are games included on the timeline that do have some crossover elements such as Mario Kart 8/Mario Kart Arcade GP/Super Mario RPG/Mario Hoops 3-on-3/Mario Sports Mix. So this would mean that having some (albeit limited) crossover elements means it’s still eligible for the timeline.
This is my logic as to why Puzzles and Dragons should be considered for the timeline. Despite its name, it not a crossover in the sense that Mario and Co. are teaming up with dragons from the series. It’s more that it’s a Mario game with a story and regular Mario characters that plays like a Puzzles and Dragon game. The only other crossover element is the inclusion of Tamadra who is a character that originated from Puzzles & Dragons. However, I do not think this should be enough to exclude the entire game. Link, Inklings, and Isabelle appear in MK8, Final Fantasy characters appear in Mario Sports Mix, Super Mario RPG, and Mario Hoops 3-on-3, and Pac-Man and other Namco characters appear throughout the Mario Kart Arcade GP series. With all these other games that feature crossover characters, I don’t understand why a game like Puzzles & Dragon with limited crossover elements and a full story should be excluded? I would be interested in hearing your reasoning for the exclusion of this game as well as your logic in determining how much crossover material a game is allowed in order to be considered part of the timeline.
Games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe are still Mario games first and foremost. Yes, they feature a handful of guest characters but the vast majorities of the games in question are just Mario.
In order for a game to be considered canon, it must entirely be a Mario title. Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition is very much a Puzzle & Dragons game as much as it is a Mario game. The title indicates it’s part of the Puzzle & Dragons series and the mysterious glowing Puzzle & Dragons Orbs appear in the Mushroom Kingdom out of nowhere along with Tamadra. As we can see on the overworld, these orbs are the very same ones from the Puzzle & Dragons world, making this a significant crossover given the entire game revolves around these Orbs.
This is quite similar to the setups of games like Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, which of course we know aren’t canon. This is why I have opted to leave it out. I hope that answers your question!
Music Enjoyed Released in 2022
Meet Me At The Altar - Model Citizen EP (acoustic version)
Runnner - Always Repeating Demos + Vines To Make It All Worth It single
Acceptance - Wild, Free (deluxe edition)
Mutemath - Play Dead Live
Georgia Maq - Live At Sydney Opera House
Brutalligators - This House Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Live In It
Sun June - Somewhere (expanded edition)
Spirit Of The Beehive - I Suck The Devil’s Cock (Nmesh’s Electric Ego Death Quadrathlon)
Phantogram - Eyelid Movies (expanded edition)
Slothrust - Parallel Timelines (Origins)
Unwed Sailor - Live At CommVess EP
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown (deluxe remastered edition)
Bright Eyes - A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded 1995-1997: A Companion + Letting Off The Happiness: A Companion + Fevers And Mirrors: A Companion + LIFTED Or The Story Is in The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground: A Companion + I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning: A Companion + Digital Ash In A Digital Urn: A Companion
Audio Karate - ¡Otra!
Clipping. - Clbbng + Remxing 2.1 + Remxing 2.2 + Remxing 2.3 + Remxing 2.4
Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead To The Gun (deluxe edition) + Militarie Gun & Dazy - Pressure Cooker single + What’s The Furthest Place From Here? #6 split - Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon cover)
We Were Promised Jetpacks - A Complete One-Eighty
Anti-Flag - The General Strike (10th anniversary edition)
Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Etc. + I Miss You (Doom And Gloom) single
Run The Jewels - RTJ Cu4tro
Sigur Rós - ( ) [20th anniversary edition]
The Armed - Ultrapop: Live At The Masonic
Thrice - Dead Wake/Scavengers (acoustic) + Open Your Eyes And Dream single + Summer Set Fire To The Rain (acoustic) single
Protest The Hero - Palimpsest - Instrumentals
Hopelifter - Anthemology (discography)
Samuel S.C. - 94-95 (remixed & remastered)
Reagan Youth - New Aryans
Jawbox - The Revisionist
Wire - Not About To Die (Studio Demos 1977-1978)
These Arms Are Snakes - Duct Tape & Shivering Crows (rarities & b-sides)
Idles - Five Years Of Brutalism + Crawl (DGG edit)
Rival Schools - United By Fate (20th anniversary deluxe edition)
Now, Now - Threads (10th anniversary edition)
Botch - We Are The Romans (remastered reissue) + One Twenty Two single
Copeland - Revolving Doors: An Orchestral Best-Of
Metz - Metz (deluxe edition) + Metz/Adulkt Life split + Come On Down single
You Blew It! - Grow Up, Dude (demos)
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Thank You For Being Here
Cursive - Domestica (remastered deluxe edition + Braces EP)
Lincoln - Repair And Reward (discography)
Darkbird - Ballad Of A Junebug
Esmerine - Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More
Gladie - Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out
Daniel Romano’s Outfit - La Luna
DK The Drummer - Lockers Volume One (not sure if this officially released yet, may just be a glut of singles) + I Can Do That original score
Martin Courtney - Magic Sign
Calexico - El Mirador
Sondre Lerche - Avatars Of Love
Abby Gundersen - Out Walking
Cold Gawd - God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here
Suitable Miss - In Color
Fuss - We’re Not Alone
Bull Shannon - Chill Power!!!!!
Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
Origami Angel - Re: Turn + Depart
Crosses - Permanent.Radiant
Young Prisms - Drifter
The Early November - Twenty
Soulside - A Brief Moment In The Sun
Gogol Bordello - Solidaritine + Super Taranta! (15 year anniversary edition) + Forces Of Victory single + Teroborona single
Elway - The Best Of All Possible Worlds
Pixies - Doggerel
El Ten Eleven - New Year’s Eve
Tits Up - Greatest Tits + Gaffa single
Lady Pills - What I Want
Permanent Mistakes - Demo 2022
Kavinsky - Reborn
Pinegrove - 11:11
Eels - Extreme Witchcraft
Editors - EBM
A Country Western - When Was Yesterday single + A Country Western/They Are Gutting A Body Of Water split - An Insult To The Sport
Chris Farren - Death Won’t Wait (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Stabbing Westward - Chasing Ghosts
Craig’s Brother - Easily Won, Rarely Deserved
CF98 - This Is Fine
Couplet - EP1
Sorry - Anywhere But Here
Mint Green - All Girls Go To Heaven
Kayleigh Goldsworthy - Learning To Be Happy + Live At Studio 4
Lannds - Lotus Deluxe + K-Town single
Cliffdiver - Exercise Your Demons
Pinch Points - Process
Football, Etc. - Vision + Vision Remixes
Slang - Cockroach In A Ghost Town
The Flatliners - New Ruin
City Of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters
Show Me The Body - Trouble The Water
Punitive Damage - This Is The Blackout
Knuckle Puck - Disposable Life
Pinkshift - Love Me Forever
Among Legends - Take Good Care
With The Punches - Discontent
Bayside - The Red EP + Rainbow (Kacey Musgraves cover) single + Go To Hell single
Jeff Rosenstock & Laura Stevenson - Younger Still
Pleasure Venom - Rebirth/Return
After The Fall - Isolation
Scott Sellers - 13 + Until It Hurts
Sparta - Sparta
Superchunk - Wild Loneliness
Toro y Moi - Mahal
Gregor Barnett - Don’t Go Throwing Roses In My Grave
Katie Dey - Forever Music + The Kraken
Kevin Devine - Nothing’s Real, So Nothing’s Wrong + Let Go, Be Dragged/Liar, Liar
Voyag3r - New York Ninja - original motion picture soundtrack
Thus Love - Memorial
Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
The Tallest Man On Earth - Too Late For Edelweiss
Archers Of Loaf - Reason In Decline
Russian Circles - Gnosis
Elder - Innate Passage
Bedouin Soundclash - We Will Meet In A Hurricane
Norma Jean - Deathrattle Sing For Me
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
Flogging Molly - Anthem
Recreational Drugs - LP
Andrew Bird - Inside Problems
Purity Ring - Graves
S. Carey - Break Me Open
A Vulture Wake - Kingdom + Animal
Future Teens - Self Help
Too Bad Eugene - Distance
The Album Leaf - Past And Future Tense + Say So single + Future Falling single + You Are single
Cheekface - Too Much To Ask + Don’t Ask (b-sides) + Live At Baby’s All Right
Smoke Or Fire - Beauty Fades
Nervus - The Evil One + Microsmiling single
White Lung - Premonition
Momma - Household Name
Tomberlin - I Don’t Know Who Needs To Hear This…
Emma Ruth Rundle - Orpheus Looking Back + EG2: Dowsing Voice
Moon Tooth - Phototroph + Carry Me Home (Blue Amp Version) single
Frou Frou - Off Cuts (demos)
Onelinedrawing - Tenderwild + Departure
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Andy, Come Out + The Old 200 + For Coit And Killie
Waxahatchee - El Deafo (soundtrack) + Waxahatchee & Wynonna Judd - Other Side single
Praise - All In A Dream
Breakup Haircut - Punk Dancing For Self Defence
Mat Kerekes - Nova
Soft Blue Shimmer - Love Lives In The Body
Single Mothers - Everything You Need
Ten Foot Pole - Winning
Cigar - The Visitor
Heart To Gold - Tom
Sack - Ripper!
Health - Disco4 :: Part II
Ignite - Ignite
Traams - Personal Best
Angel Olsen - Big Time
Dropkick Murphys - This Machine Still Kills Fascists (lyrics of Woody Guthrie)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Seven Psalms instrumental + Blonde soundtrack + Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story soundtrack
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, & Daniel Davies - Firestarter (2022) soundtrack + Halloween Ends soundtrack
Emperor X - The Lakes Of Zones B And C
Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point
The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
Courting - Guitar Music
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis Act II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
Comeback Kid - Heavy Steps
Bad Breeding - Human Capital
Old Gods - Give Them Color
Tiny Moving Parts - Tiny Moving Parts
Yard Act - The Overload
Bodega - Broken Equipment + Xtra Equipment
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Regressive Left - On The Wrong Side Of History
Fresh - Raise Hell + Fresh Comes Alive!
Bitter Branches - Your Neighbors Are Failures
Plains - I Walked With You A Ways
Suck - Ribbit
Pulley - The Golden Life
Swami John Reis - Ride The Wild Night
Greet Death - New Low
The Bruce Lee Band - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Ann Beretta - Rise + Ann Beretta/The Blacklist Royals split - In ReCOVERy
The Suicide Machines/Coquettish split - Gebo Gomi
Signals Midwest - Dent
Metric - Formentera
Skullcrusher - Quiet The Room
84 Tigers - Time In The Lighthouse
Town Liar - Lies: One Through Seven
Craig Finn - A Legacy Of Rentals
Camp Trash - The Long Way, The Slow Way
Joyce Manor - 40 Oz. To Fresno
Mono - Scarlet Holiday + My Story, The Bukaru Story (An Original Soundtrack)
Tangerine Dream - Raum
Circa Survive - A Dream About Death
And So I Watch You From Afar - Jettison
Pom Poko - This Is Our House
PUP - The Unraveling Of PUPtheband + Matilda/Robot Writes A Love Song (Live In Toronto 2022)
Frank Turner - FTHC
Flasher - Love Is Yours
Camp Cope - Running With The Hurricane
Bad Heaven Ltd. - In Our House Now
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
Just Mustard - Heart Under
Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
TV Priest - My Other People
Preoccupations - Arrangements
Odesza - The Last Goodbye + The Last Goodbye Remixes No. 1
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave
Sadurn - Radiator
Tigers Jaw - Old Clothes
Pianos Become The Teeth - Drift
The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever
Stay Inside - Blight
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn + Entering Heaven Alive
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There (deluxe edition)
David Knudson - The Only Thing You Have To Change Is Everything + Undo/Redo [EP]
Ways Away - Torch Songs
Young Jesus - Shepherd Head
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
Strategies - Strategies
Anthony Green - Boom. Done. + When I Come Home single
Thick - Happy Now + Love You Forever single
Anxious - Little Green House + Sunsign single
A Wilhelm Scream - Lose Your Delusion
Gleemer - Here At All
Inside Voices - Liminal Space
Glacier Veins - Lunar Reflection
Pool Kids - Pool Kids
Mt. Oriander - Then The Lightness Leaves And I Become Heavy Again
Caracara - New Preoccupations
Peregrine - The Awful Things We’ve Done
Gilla Band - Most Normal
A Place To Bury Strangers - See Through You + Dragged In A Hole (Glove remix) + Love Reaches Out (Gift remix) + My Head Is Bleeding (The Pleasure Majenta remix)
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation
Weird Nightmare - Weird Nightmare + Weird Nightmare/Ancient Shapes split + So Far Gone single + Our Love Will Still Be There (The Troggs cover) single
Iron & Wine - Lori
Fairweather - Deluge
Anberlin - Silverline
L.S. Dunes - Past Lives
Oso Oso - Sore Thumb + De Facto single
Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out + The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5
Black Star - No Fear Of Time
Zola Jesus - Arkhon
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Be Well - Hello Sun
Jesus H. Chris - A Catastrophic Break With Consensus Reality
Their/They’re/There - Their/They’re/There + Their/They’re/There/Pacemaker split - Them Dogs
Hot Water Music - Feel The Void
Alex G - God Save The Animals + We’re All Going To The World’s Fair soundtrack
Damien Jurado - Reggae Film Star
Rocky Votolato - Wild Roots
Tim Kasher - Welcome To… Middling Age
Dan Andriano & The Bygones - Dear Darkness
Spice - Viv
NewDad - Banshee + ILY2 single
Lande Hekt - House Without A View + Romantic single
Murder By Death - Spell/Bound
Brutus - Unison Life
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
Cassels - A Gut Feeling
Sprints - A Modern Job + Literary Mind single
Dead Cross - II
Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field + A Real Thing single
The Darling Fire - Distortions
FES - With Regards From Home
Off! - Free LSD
Crisis Man - Asleep In America
Beach Rats - Rat Beat
Short Fictions - Every Moment Of Every Day
Lies - Blemishes/Echoes + Summer Somewhere single + Corbeau single + Camera Chimera single
Black Midi - Hellfire + Cavalcovers
Bartees Strange - Farm To Table
Sharon Van Etten - We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong (deluxe edition)
Pedro The Lion - Havasu
Plosivs - Plosivs
Drug Church - Hygiene
Osees - A Foul Form
Sound Bites Presents His Favorite Archival Albums of 2022
What’s old is new again when classic albums are remastered and expanded; long-lost recordings are found; and/or artists just say, “Fuck it,” and put out something they’d long resisted.
All of those things happened in 2022. And here are some of the releases your humble blogger enjoyed the most.
For the six of you who are loyal readers, Sound Bites will publish year-end round ups of live and studio albums and a live-music year in review in the coming days. Please stay tuned.
The Beatles - Revolver (Super Deluxe) - Listening to Revolver Super Deluxe is like flipping through aural blue prints as the Beatles and George Martin construct the songs; adding and removing pieces atop the foundational backing tracks. Also, mono is where it’s at. Review.
Lou Reed - Words & Music, May 1965 - Fifty-seven years after the fact, Reed’s Words & Music, May 1965 is a fascinating glimpse at Lou Reed becoming Lou Reed and evidence he may have been the first, next Bob Dylan. Review.
Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen - The Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jorma’s House - This recording has long circulated among fans and Kaukonen sometimes mentions it when he plays intimate gigs at his Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio. Now restored and officially released, it's more than an aural glimpse of two pre-fame legends - though it certainly is that. Review.
Cat Stevens - Harold and Maude (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 50th Anniversary - Then a new artist, Stevens balked at a soundtrack album in ’71, for fear it would be greeted as a premature greatest-hits package. Not quite the greatest-hits album Stevens - who now goes by Yusuf - feared and certainly not music from ’22’s blockbuster of the year, Harold and Maude is nevertheless a treat for fans of the musician and the film alike. Review.
The Vince Guaraldi Trio - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (Deluxe Expanded Edition) - Twelve of Black Orpheus’ 16, 60th-anniversary bonus tracks have never been released and the works-in-progress are mostly welcome glimpses into the trio’s in-studio creative process. Meanwhile, three takes of Fats Waller’s “Jitterbug Waltz” provide insight into the other music swirling around Guaraldi’s mind while the album was taking shape. Review.
Vince Guaraldi - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (2022 Edition) - Expanded from 20 to 30 minutes and culled from recently discovered session tapes “once thought to be lost forever,” the updated original soundtrack recording contains previously unheard alternate takes and finally sounds as it should. Review.
Pink Floyd - Alternative Tracks 1972 - This quietly released-to-streaming LP seems to indicate all that road testing Pink Floyd did with the Dark Side of the Moon paid off by the time they got into the studio. An an interesting - if not essential - listening experience. Review.
Sam Moss - Blues Approved - Moss was a legend in Winston-Salem, N.C., - “our Guru of Groove, the Maharishi of Mojo,” as Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids put it - revered for his club performances and promotion of the blues. He was one of those guys whom everybody thought should make a record. Turns out, Moss - who died in 2007 - did make a record. In 1977. It’s just been rediscovered. Review.
This has been another great year on this blog of me sharing a thought or two about pop culture! This was a year I needed pop culture, entertainment and escapism more than ever. I got to do so many awesome things and I can’t believe that in early 2023 this blog turns 10! Here are some of the highlights of 2022:
Retweets and Social Media: There were numerous retweets and shares of my posts this year on social media including 2022 Collectibles Extravaganza sharing my coverage, Dana Carvey liked my tweet about Wayne’s World at Nice a Fest, David Spade liked my tweet about my interview with Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Sean Baker liked my tweet about Red Rocket being my Best 2021 Movie I Saw in 2022.
Interviews: I got to interview numerous people including Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz of Weird Al Yankovic’s band (plus a bonus portion of the interview), Nice a Fest founder Alex Pickert, musician Colleen Green, actor / director James Morosini, director Marq Evans, director April Wright, director Ryan White, musician Kay Hanley, and actors Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson.
Movie Reviews: I got to review A Hero, Sundown, I Want You Back, Studio 666, Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, Jurassic World Dominion, The Beatles and India, George Michael Freedom Uncut, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, Thor: Love and Thunder, Clerks III, Sidney, Nothing Compares, Halloween Ends, Let There Be Drums!, Rebel Dread, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, A Christmas Story Christmas, She Said, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Bablyon.
Album Reviews: I got to review Eddie Vedder’s Earthling and the vinyl reissue of Ukelele Songs, John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies’ Firestarter soundtrack and Halloween Ends soundtrack, Florence + The Machine’s Dance Fever, The Rolling Stones’ Live at El Mocambo, The Clash’s Combat Rock / The People’s Hall special edition, Wilco’s Cruel Country, Beabadoobee’s Beatopia, Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Toast, Neil Young and Promise of the Real’s Noise & Flowers, R.E.M.’s Chronic Town 40th anniversary EP, Oasis’s Be Here Now 25th anniversary edition, Ringo Starr’s EP3, Djo’s Decide, Billy Idol’s The Cage, The Smithereens’ The Lost Album, The Pixies’ Doggerel, L7′s Bricks Are Heavy 30th anniversary reissue, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Cool It Down, Alvvays’ Blue Rev, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Return of the Dream Canteen, Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros’ Joe Strummer 002: The Mescalero Years box set, The Beatles’ Revolver Special Super Deluxe Edition, Foo Fighters’ The Essential Foo Fighters, the compilation album ‘Life Moves Pretty Fast’ The John Hughes Mixtapes, Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion I and II box set, Bruce Springsteen’s Only the Strong Survive, Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Live at the Fillmore, 1997.
Concert Reviews: The year began with a livestream concert review of Mike Garson’s A Bowie Celebration. In person concert reviews came back with reviews of Sheer Mag, Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, Paul McCartney, Death Cab for Cutie, Alvvays, and not an official review but I did a semi-review of Cheap Trick at Boston Calling.
DVD and Blu-ray Reviews: I got to review some DVD and blu-rays including The Beatles: Get Back, Neil Young and Promise of the Real: Noise & Flowers, and You Can’t Do That on Film.
Book Reviews: I got to cover numerous books released in 2022 including Olivia Harrison’s Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George, Pattie Boyd’s My Life in Pictures, and Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Book.
Theater Reviews: This year I got to do my first official theater review, for On Beckett.
Music Festivals: I got to cover the 2022 Nice, a Fest festival.
Film Festivals and Film Events: I got to review a virtual film at Sundance Film Festival, my annual guide to the 2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films, my coverage of the 2022 Independent Film Festival Boston, covered the 2022 Collectibles Extravaganza, and the 2022 IFFBoston Fall Focus.
...And the biggest postings and news of the year:
- 1/2/2022: Green’s Party turned 9!
- 1/28/2022: I wrote my tribute to Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who I have been lucky enough to cover since 2017.
- March 2022: I took a breather from the blog for a few weeks due to a death in the family.
- 3/26/22: I posted my remembrance of Taylor Hawkins. 32 notes, my biggest post of 2022!
- 3/29/22: I posted my This Month In History column for March. 19 notes.
- 4/14/22: I wrote about returning to my first live concert in over 2 years to see LCD Soundsystem.
- 5/26/22: I posted my remembrance of Ray Liotta. 11 notes.
- 6/19/22: I re-shared my 2021 post about Sesame Street’s Juneteenth Song. 28 notes.
- 7/31/22: I posted my remembrance of Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols. 18 notes.
- 8/7/22: I shared my return to Kim’s Video at NYC’s Alamo Drafthouse.
- 9/21/22: I shared the big news that my documentary Life on the V: The Story of V66 has been added to the Permanent Collection of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
- 10/12/22: I re-shared my 2018 post about This Day in 2018. 15 notes.
- 12/8/22: Tumblr provided their data of Green’s Party Year in Review up until December 8.
- 12/17/22: I re-shared my 2020 Top 5 Seinfeld Episodes During the Holiday Season list. 11 notes.
Set Review: The Beatles - Revolver (2022 Super Deluxe Edition)
Set Review: The Beatles – Revolver (2022 Super Deluxe Edition)
In 2022, The Beatles released a reissue of the Revolver album, which included Super Deluxe, Deluxe, and Standard editions on vinyl, CD, and digital. This review is for the five-disc CD version of the Super Deluxe edition of the Revolver reissue.
For whatever reason, it was decided to break down the tracks on the CDs in the same manner as on the vinyl release. Because of this, this version of the…
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The Beatles beloved 1966 album has finally received the deluxe box set treatment, with expanded LP and CD editions featuring new stereo mixes, restored mono mixes, bonus outtakes & demos plus plenty more! There's also single disc remasters featuring Giles Martin & Sam Okell's new 2022 stereo mix. See below for the various options and get in touch to secure a copy.
Deluxe Editions:
- Super Deluxe Vinyl Box (4LP + 7") - $320
- Super Deluxe CD Box (5CD) - $210
This Special Edition of The Beatles’ REVOLVER features a new mix by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, the original mono mix, a 4-track EP, 31 session takes and home demos, a 100-page book with a foreword by Paul McCartney, an essay by Questlove, detailed track notes, photos and ephemera including handwritten lyrics, tape boxes and extracts from Klaus Voormann’s graphic novel on the making of the cover art.
Standard Editions:
- Single LP (New Stereo Mix) - $68
- Single CD (New Stereo Mix) - $32
From “Taxman” to “Tomorrow Never Knows,” The Beatles’ REVOLVER has been newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and Sam Okell, and sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes with audio brought forth in stunning clarity with the help of cutting-edge technology developed by the award-winning sound team at Peter Jackson’s WingNut Films Productions Ltd.
Elton John and Britney Spears have released the second official remix of their hit "Hold Me Closer" with world-renowned German producer and DJ Purple Disco Machine. The latest remix of the smash hit adds the DJ's namesake nu-disco and upbeat signature sound to the fan-favorite track.Earlier this month, John and Spears had released a remix in collaboration with English DJ and producer Joel Corry. "Hold Me Closer," which dropped on August 26, is a new rendition of the rocketman's 1972 classic "Tiny Dancer."
(Let me say that I am an old old man, and I have heard several crappy songs, in my days, but this is THE BIGGEST PIECE OF SHIT I HAVE EVER HEARD! rant over…)
Graceland has announced the scheduled for Elvis Presley's 88th birthday celebration.
The King of Rock' n' Roll's 88th birthday will be celebrated with concerts, movies and conversations in Memphis during January 5-8, 2023. The festivities include the annual Elvis Birthday Proclamation Ceremony, The Memphis Symphony Orchestra's annual Elvis Pops Concert with Terry Mike Jeffrey, Conversations on Elvis, plus an extraordinary Elvis Screen Show to mark the 50th anniversary of Aloha from Hawaii. A special package offers superior benefits featuring a Show & Tell/Q&A with Angie Marchese, '68 Special Late Night Screening, Daily Pass to Elvis Presley's Memphis, admission to Club Elvis Hawaiin style, and exclusive front-of-the-house seating at many shows. The annual Elvis Birthday Proclamation Ceremony will take place on Graceland's north lawn on Elvis' birthday, January 8, at 8:30 AM. The ceremony can be watched online via Graceland's Livestream page.
The Beatles recently shared John Lennon's acoustic outtake of classic "Yellow Submarine" from their upcoming Revolver box set. Lennon gives the cheerful "Yellow Submarine" a sad melancholy feel as he sings, "In the place where I was born / No one cared, no one cared / And the name that I was born / No one cared, no one cared."
The Beatles announced the expanded edition of Revolver in July. In the special edition, the album's 14 tracks have been newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo and Dolby Atmos, and the album's original mono mix is sourced from its 1966 mono master tape. Revolver Special Edition (Super Deluxe) consists of 63 tracks, Revolver Special Edition (Deluxe) has 29 tracks, and Revolver Special Edition (Standard) includes 14 tracks.
“Tomorrow Never Knows” (Take 1) Presents Beatles at Work on Psychedelic Classic
- Outtake precedes Oct. 28 Revolver reissue
Even without the aural lava lamp that would eventually envelop it, “Tomorrow Never Knows” is a psychedelic masterpiece.
Recorded April 6, 1966, the first take of the first song the Beatles worked on for Revolver is out to tease the super-deluxe edition coming Oct. 28.
“We had no sense of the momentousness of what we were doing,” engineer Geoff Emerick said in a statement. “It all just seemed like a bit of fun in a good cause at the time – but what we created that afternoon was actually the forerunner of today’s beat-and-loop-driven music.”
This four-piece recording is revelatory with Ringo Starr’s drum pattern just taking shape and John Lennon singing through a Leslie speaker and goofing off as the track disintegrates.
Paul McCartney and George Harrison are in charge of the weird, contributing drones - loops and tamboura, respectively - to the mix.
Unlike the preceding 2022 remix of “Taxman,” this embryonic “Tomorrow Never Knows” illuminates the dark recesses of the Fabs’ creative process. Serious scholars and interested fans alike will bask in wonderment.